Oxford University Press

For those addressing ecological and natural resource management problems this volume presents a set of coherent, cross-referenced perspectives on incorporating the spatial representation and analytical power of GIS with agent-based modeling of evolutionary and non-linear processes and phenomena. Many recent advances in software algorithms for...

This monograph presents recent advances in neural network (NN) approaches and applications to chemical reaction dynamics....

Forbes Magazine ranks ASA of Bangladesh the world's best microfinance bank. But ASA started as a revolutionary movement aiming to place a peasant-led government in power in Bangladesh. This book tells how ASA's determined but practical-minded founder, Shafiqual Haque Choudhury, steered his organization through the maze of competing ideas about how...

Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern EuropeIn this wide-ranging set of essays, Charles King examines the conceptual intersection of nationalist ideology, social violence, and the political transformation of Europe and Eurasia over the last two decades. Extreme Politics charts the end of "e;Eastern Europe"e; as a place and...

Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, the 19th century encounter between East Asia and the Western world has been narrated as a legal encounter. This book explores extraterritoriality and the ways in which Western power operated in East Asia from the 1820s to the 1920s....

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